Adam Barnas joins the Ball State Department of Psychological Science as an Assistant Professor of Psychological Science. What is your preferred name? Preferred pronouns? Adam Barnas Please introduce yourself—I’d love a snapshot version of who you are and where you call home. I completed my PhD in 2019 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee under the mentorship of Adam […]
Dr. Jongwook Kim joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Professor. What is your journey to Ball State? Before joining Ball State, I worked as an associate instructor in statistics while pursuing my Ph.D. at Indiana University Bloomington. So, Indiana has always felt like a cozy and familiar place to me. I was […]
Dr. Hazem Al-Mofleh joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Teaching Professor. What is your journey to Ball State? Before coming to Ball State, I was Associate Professor at Tafila Technical University (in Jordan). I started my teaching at Tafila Technical University in 2014 as a Full-time Lecturer of Mathematics, I have been converted […]
Dr. Sam Prough joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Professor. What is your journey to Ball State? Before Ball State, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Delaware. I worked with elementary students and their teachers to facilitate classroom discussions in mathematics and consider how they were similar to talk in […]
Dr. Justin Murray joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Teaching Professor. What is your journey to Ball State? I completed my PhD in mathematics at Louisiana State University in 2024. Before that I completed a master’s program at Ball State in 2019. My bachelor’s degree was obtained in 2017 at Indiana University Kokomo. […]
Dr. Cameron Doerr joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Lecturer. What is your journey to Ball State? I received my BA in mathematics from Illinois College in 2020 and my MS in mathematics from Ball State in 2023. After taking a year away from Ball State, having worked in the insurance world, I […]
Melinda Howell joins the Ball State Department of Psychological Science as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Psychological Science. Please introduce yourself—I’d love a snapshot version of who you are and where you call home. My name is Melinda Howell, and I am from the Muncie area originally. I went to grad school in Minnesota, then […]
Mackenzie Riggenbach joins the Ball State Department of Psychological Science as an Assistant Professor of Psychological Science. Please introduce yourself. My name is Mackenzie Riggenbach, and I am originally from Van Wert, Ohio. I have lived in Ohio most of my life except for the last five years when I lived in Norman, Oklahoma. What is your educational […]
Dr. Michael Pilla joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematical Sciences What is your journey to Ball State? I received my PhD in mathematics from Purdue University. I spent a few years at Indiana University, Bloomington before coming to Ball State University. What are your research and […]
Robert M. Damler, FSA, MAAA, joins the Ball State Department of Mathematical Sciences as a John Beekman Distinguished Professor of Actuarial Science. Professor Damler also serves on the College of Sciences and Humanities Dean’s Executive Advisory Council. What is your journey to Ball State? I graduated from Ball State University in 1987 with a Bachelor’s […]